No Enquiry from Persons Carrying Accident’s Victims to Hospital
Saturday - January 21, 2017 2:18 am ,
Category : MADHYA PRADESH
Durgesh Raikwar,
Bhopal : Necessary Directives to Protect Good Samaritan
No question is asked from bystander and Good Samaritan who carry accident’s victims to hospital and they are not detained. Directives are in place to display it necessarily in Hindi and English Language in accident/emergency department, patients’ waiting rooms of the public and private hospitals. Also no registration or admission charges are charged from the bystander or Good Samaritan. This also must be written in Hindi and English languages in the hospitals.
In compliance to the Supreme Court order, the Directorate Health Services has told all the Chief Medical and Health Officers and Civil Surgeon cum Chief Medical Superintendent to ensure these instructions in all the public and private hospitals.
In case the bystander or Good Samaritan makes a phone call to provide emergency medical services for accident victims; they should not be compelled to provide their name or personal details over phone or by presence in person. Moreover a disciplinary action will be taken against the doctor under the Chapter 7 ‘Professional Misconduct’ of the Indian Medical Council (Professional Conduct, Etiquette and Ethics) Regulation 2002 for not providing medical treatment under the emergency situation related to road accidents. The hospital is required to provide a receipt of time and place for admitting victim in the hospital if bystander or Good Samaritan wishes so.
Personal information of bystander or Good Samaritan like name and contact is voluntary and optional in the cases of Medico Legal. Except in the case of eyewitness, who should be allowed to go after obtaining address. Orientation of all the employees should be conducted at the time of recruitment regarding notification published in the state gazette. Also regular training from time to time should be imparted to them.
Bhopal : Necessary Directives to Protect Good Samaritan
No question is asked from bystander and Good Samaritan who carry accident’s victims to hospital and they are not detained. Directives are in place to display it necessarily in Hindi and English Language in accident/emergency department, patients’ waiting rooms of the public and private hospitals. Also no registration or admission charges are charged from the bystander or Good Samaritan. This also must be written in Hindi and English languages in the hospitals.
In compliance to the Supreme Court order, the Directorate Health Services has told all the Chief Medical and Health Officers and Civil Surgeon cum Chief Medical Superintendent to ensure these instructions in all the public and private hospitals.
In case the bystander or Good Samaritan makes a phone call to provide emergency medical services for accident victims; they should not be compelled to provide their name or personal details over phone or by presence in person. Moreover a disciplinary action will be taken against the doctor under the Chapter 7 ‘Professional Misconduct’ of the Indian Medical Council (Professional Conduct, Etiquette and Ethics) Regulation 2002 for not providing medical treatment under the emergency situation related to road accidents. The hospital is required to provide a receipt of time and place for admitting victim in the hospital if bystander or Good Samaritan wishes so.
Personal information of bystander or Good Samaritan like name and contact is voluntary and optional in the cases of Medico Legal. Except in the case of eyewitness, who should be allowed to go after obtaining address. Orientation of all the employees should be conducted at the time of recruitment regarding notification published in the state gazette. Also regular training from time to time should be imparted to them.
